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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (13870)	8/20/2004 10:43:33 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

No, your home addition in lieu of paying your freight for insurance is for your own selfish benefit, to the detriment of the rest of us. We are forced as a society to contribute to insure you as an irresponsible idiot, because we won't let you or your family die in the street in the event of an unforseen health crisis for lack of insurance. As for your healthcare economic theories, if you're so smart, why don't you simply figure out and implement what nobody else has ever been able to do?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (13870)	8/21/2004 12:12:40 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

you never answered OMD's well thought out post Message 20428440 wouldn't you agree he makes great points in health care? Canadian health care costs now consumes 32 per cent of provincial and territorial revenues and will rise to 44 per cent in 2020, even before the demographic wave of baby boomers begins to wash onto the shore of the health care system - it requires an annual increase of $5 billion just to maintain existing services for only middle-of-the-pack health care results